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Join our Twitter Q&A - Tuesday 18 March | 17/03/2014

Between 1pm and 2pm (GMT) on Tuesday 18 March, three of our experts will be answering your questions on fusion live on Twitter from the JET Control Room.

Our @fusionenergy panel is (from left to right): David Hancock (an engineer who designs fusion power plant systems); Fernanda Rimini (who took part in running world record fusion experiments on JET); and David Keeling (a physicist who works on plasma heating but knows much more besides!).

To get involved, just tweet your question using the hashtag #askfusion, either during the session or in advance.

The event is part of the Oxfordshire Science Festival and follows our first Q&A back in September. Questions then included: "could you have a fusion-powered heart like Iron Man?"; "why don't you run fusion machines under high pressure to simulate gravity?"; "what impact will ITER have on the public's perception of fusion?"; and of course, the old chestnut – "will fusion power always be 50 years away?".